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The 2018 First Responder Bowl was a college football bowl game scheduled for December 26, 2018, at the Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas. It was one of the 2018–19 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by Servpro, a franchisor of fire and water cleanup and restoration, the game was officially known as the Servpro First Responder Bowl. The ninth overall staging of the bowl, this was the first edition since being rebranded; its prior six editions were the Heart of Dallas Bowl, preceded by the TicketCity Bowl in its first two stagings.
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- ↑ "Boise State Bowl History". Archived from the original on 2013-01-01. Retrieved 2012-12-25.
- ↑ "First Responder Bowl: Boise State vs. Boston College canceled, ruled no contest due to inclement weather".